Experience

Positions held and degrees obtained, most recent first. The same record, with publications and everything else, is in the CV.

Professional experience

1. Scientific Researcher

   2018 – present Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

   Head of the Medical Artificial Intelligence Group.

2. Lecturer

   2019 – 2023 Idiap Research Institute & Unidistance Suisse, Martigny, Switzerland

   Three modules of the Master in Artificial Intelligence: open science and ethics (M05), and fundamentals of machine learning (M06 and M08).

3. Lecturer

   2013 – 2023 EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Lausanne, Switzerland

   EE-612, Fundamentals of Statistical Pattern Recognition: a doctoral course on machine learning and pattern recognition, from the basics to deep learning, given biennially.

4. Research Associate

   2014 – 2018 Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

   Research on biometrics, security and computing.

5. Post-doctoral Researcher

   2010 – 2013 Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

   Research on biometrics, security and computing.

6. Research & Development Engineer

   2004 – 2010 CERN, Switzerland University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

   Design, development and maintenance of the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition systems, deployed and operational on more than 5000 machines at CERN and worldwide.

7. Research Assistant

   2000 – 2004 CERN, Switzerland UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Brazil

   Design, implementation and integration of a novel algorithm for fast physics triggering — based on calorimetry, topological mapping and neural networks — into the second-level trigger software of the ATLAS Experiment, alongside the online infrastructure needed to run and validate it.

8. Research Internship

   1997 – 1998 CERN, Switzerland

   Contributed to early prototypes of the second-level trigger and to what became the final trigger design of the ATLAS Experiment.

9. Research Internship

   1994 – 1999 UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   Sub-optimal filtering for particle discrimination, and neural classifiers implemented in a transputer-based parallel machine.

Education

1. Ph.D., Electronics Engineering (Signal Processing & Machine Learning)

   2001 – 2006 UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   Electronics Engineering School (Signal Processing Laboratory), Post-Graduate Program (COPPE). Thesis developed at CERN, Switzerland, in the context of the ATLAS Experiment.

   Dissertation →

2. M.Sc., Electronics Engineering (Signal Processing & Machine Learning)

   2000 – 2001 UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   Electronics Engineering School (Signal Processing Laboratory), Post-Graduate Program (COPPE). Thesis developed in the context of the ATLAS-CERN / UFRJ collaboration.

   Dissertation →

3. Engineer, Electronics Engineering

   1994 – 1999 UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   Degree from the Electronics Engineering Department.

   Dissertation →

4. Technician, Electronics

   1989 – 1993 CEFET (Federal Center of Technology), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   Technical course in electronics, taken alongside high-school studies.